US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND, AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on June 24 for "Non-retractable wheel-type landing gear for a rotorcraft" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,953, issued on June 24, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany) and AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Non-retractable wheel-type landing gear for a rotorcraft" was invented by Axel Fink (Donauworth, Germany), Reynaldo Oioli-Neto (Donauworth, Germany) and Didier Bertin (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-retractable wheel-type landing gear for a rotorcraft, comprising: at least one wheel; a shock absorber with a circumferential direction, which is connected to the at least one wheel and comprises a shock absorber tube and a shock absorber rod telescopically mounted to the s...